Surgical robot and method for displaying image of patient placed on surgical table
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTsuyoshi Tojo, Yuji Kishida, Takeshi Kurihara
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Abstract
A surgical robot includes an arm base mover configured to move an arm base configured to support a plurality of arms, an imaging device provided on the arm base, the imaging device being configured to image a patient placed on a surgical table, and a display configured to display, in real time, the patient imaged by the imaging device.
Claims20
A surgical robot comprising:
- a plurality of arms each configured to enable a medical device to be attached thereto;
- an arm base configured to support the plurality of arms;
- an arm base mover configured to move the arm base;
- an imaging device provided on the arm base, the imaging device being configured to image a patient placed on a surgical table;
- and
- a display configured to display, in real time, the patient imaged by the imaging device,
- wherein the display is configured to superimpose and display an image of a trocar captured by the imaging device and a mark used to align the arm base with the trocar, the trocar being configured to enable an endoscope to be inserted from a body surface of the patient,
- the mark is displayed on a substantially center area of the display.
A storage storing a computer program to perform a method for displaying, on a display of a surgical robot, an image of a patient placed on a surgical table, the surgical robot comprising a plurality of arms each configured to enable a medical device to be attached thereto and an arm base configured to support the plurality of arms, the method comprising:
- imaging a patient placed on a surgical table by an imaging device provided on the arm base;
- displaying the patient imaged by the imaging device on the display in real time,
- displaying an image of a trocar captured by the imaging device and a mark used to align the arm base with the trocar, the trocar being configured to enable an endoscope to be inserted from a body surface of the patient,
- the mark being displayed on a substantially center area of the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.